Shorts Reviews: ‘The Fuzz’ Episodes 9 and 10

 

Spoilers Below

What the H is wrong with the Yahoo censors? No one can say “fuck,” even in a non-vulgar way, but they can show a puppet railing a naked chick from behind as he spanks her and she snorts blow? What is the world coming to when fuzzy cloth creatures can freely fornicate with real naked humans, but a stand-up guy like John Stamos can’t drop an F-bomb, or a talented actor like Alan Cumming can’t talk about ejaculation (p.s. Cumming, ha.)

Aside from puppets getting freaky on humans, episode 9 of The Fuzz actually had a key series moment, with a look into Herbie and Rainbow’s backstory. Apparently the two used to sing on street corners for spare change back in their childhoods, until they were robbed one day. Herbie ran to the cops, and Rainbow ran after the thief and beat him with a baseball bat. Or possibly a waffle ball bat. Either way, that’s still assault, brotha.

Toward the end of the episode, Herbie decided to go undercover and infiltrate Rainbow’s lair. (Which in retrospect kind of seemed like a silly idea given their history, but hey, I’m not a writer for a puppet show.) Predictably, the ruse was a failure (because Herbie is an L7 weenie incapable of being cool) and is nabbed by Rainbow’s goons and forced to participate in some kind of puppet deathmatch.

 

In episode 10, Herbie bested his larger puppet opponent by making him dizzy. Rainbow, impressed by Herbie’s style and anti-felt fighting stance, invited him back to his mansion. While lounging by the pool, Rainbow hit the jelly with Herbie and confided in him that Jake – now Rainbow’s rival kingpin – set him up at the Puppet Town Massacre. Herbie then realized that in order to completely end the drug crime problem, him and Sanchez would have to take down both Rainbow and Jake.

Regardless of the humor, the story line in this show has definitely grabbed and kept my attention, specifically in the last few episodes. The different layers to the story add some unexpected depth, and I’m honestly curious where it’ll go in the last four installments.

Luckily though, the show happens to be pretty damn funny too. I really enjoy Sanchez and the jokes related to puppets interacting with humans, and the serious show with silly elements is working extremely well.